Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-28
Town AND COUNTY.

The Fort Worth and Rio Grznde has @
large force st work bEllastiDg Its track,
which will soon be equal to the best in
the state.
The knowing ones predict that inside
of twelve months the Chicsgo, Rock
Island and Pacific will be running trains
to Fort Worth.
In the District court last week E. J.
Mathis won suit sgainst NJ. NJ. Sewer,
involving S tract Of some 200 acres in the
western part of this county.
It is the intention of the ST. Louis, Ar
kansas 8nd Texas contractors to have
track laid TO Plano by November l, and
from there to Fort Worth the rails will
go down st the rSte Of two miles day.
Fort Worth has two roads besides the
Fort Worth Western that she must work
for and watch, and they are the Sherman
Fort Worth Air Line and the Fort Worth
and Southeastern. "To the pineries
direct" should be the slogan Of our rail-
road builders.
It is stated on excellent authority that
the Dallas, Archer snd Pacific now in
tends TO build to Grapevine, where they
will make connection with the St. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas, with which road it
is said running arrangement to Fort
Worth has been made. Colonel Afford
says that in Ave months the Dallas,
Archer and Pacific trains will pull up st
the depot in Fort Worth.
Mr.. A. T. Byers on yesterday received
q sample OF whet is thought to be fine
jasper taken from qusrry in
Young County on the line of
the Fort Worth Western Road.
He took the rock to Mr.. Plse file, the jew
eler, who, with one of his expert work
men, applied several tests and polished
of one face OF the stone, and it was found
that the white portion was sus-
ceptible Of a high polish. III
order to learn definitely Whst
the stone Is Mr.. Byers then took 1t to Pro-
lessor Harper, the well known chemist,
who will know by to-day whether the
stone is jasper or not. II the rock is what
is thought the Fort Worth Western can
well be nsmed the Jasper road.
The Panhandle Construction Company
is pushing the work on the Fort Worth
and Denver with vigor rarely eqaaled on
other lines built in Texas. Track is now
laid 3s9 miles from Fort Worth. Graders
have covered sll the line to the border of
the state with the exception OF thirty
miles On the plains, which is all light
work. 1t Is now more than probable that
the road will be completed to New Mexico
by January l, 1888. The track-lsyers
will continue work without intermission
until the Canadian bridge is reached,
when few days. stop may be made. The
telegraph line is built to the front with
the track, so the contractors have direct
communication with Fort Worth at all
times.
On yesterday all the cities and towns
| in Texas which had known the Baltimore
and Ohio Telegraph Company, found that
a new telegraph company had entered the
field, and that the click, click, of the old
instruments was sounding as pleasantly
as ever. This new companV's blanks
read Gulf, Colorado snd Santa Fe
Railway Telegraph and W. Snyder is the
general manager. In this city table
with four instruments was placed in the
city cffioe Of the Santa Fe, and Agent
Smith WAS taking business right along.
The new telegraph company reaches a
great many of the important
cities in Texas, and when 8
gap Of $50 miles through the
Territory is filled The SAINTS Fe will have
direct telegrsphic connection at Wichita,
Kan, with the Postal Telegraph wires
which now go to New York, Boston, Chi
cago, ST. Louis and all the eastern cities,
besides reaching the far west over the
lines ofthe Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
The company has come into the Geld "a